wow… i have about 70% on my 2012 9cell and get about 2.5 hours with highly optimized config(slackware, power management, governor, brightness etc). 5-12hrs with a core2duo sounds very good.

still couldn’t find a proper new battery, hope i score one soon

Just curious but how do you manage to keep the X200T/T500’s battery alive? Even my X220’s is almost dead by now. Do you have it plugged in 24/7?

fully agree. i usually sacrifice one of my less used keys and bind it as a left mouse click instead.

offtopic but your english is great :)

selection autocopy and wheel/shift ins pasting is superior to all alternatives imo

This is awesome. I hope the students don’t start enjoying xbill :p

slackware :)

seems like its still one of the best linux phones available.

I would recommend slackware or devuan with xfce or lxde

fvwm :)

I don’t hate it, but as a PC/phone user it’s security features are almost never helpful and always cause issues so I just have it disabled.

i mean its pretty good if you get used to it… i remember the shortcuts for all the major tools i use and it’s very quick and easy to use for me.

i’ve never used linux mint and i’m curious, how does it differentiate from debian? Might not matter much, but i recall hearing they have their own package with the xedit name so one can’t install the original xedit and that’s not really great packaging.

That’s weird, I’ve made over 20 fresh debian installs and they were all successful without such glitch. The commandline installer is more stable though. (had a few displaying distorted screen in gui mode for some reason)

Yeah sure but they do force snap for some packages (while making it look like apt running) and it isn’t ideal. I don’t see any reason to use ubuntu over debian unless I’m some corporation that needs to run the same version for 10 years with their subscription.

#1. The distro matters, but not much tbh. The main difference is usually the package manager being used, the default DE/WM, init system (sysvinit/systemd/openrc), and the variant of packages they ship. #2. Avoid Ubuntu if so. #3. I recommend Debian stable. #4. Can’t say much about HDR, multiple monitors are probably fine. (different refresh rate and such can be a hassle to configure tho) #5. Yes KDE is a good choice.

+Photoshop/VS probably runs in WINE but I’m not sure. You might need VM.

this is perfect

Not a fan of systemd, but I’m glad they still keep OpenRc selectable.

tbh GTK2 feels superior to GTK4, though I’m glad it’s still being developed.